Culture
‘Maelstrom Over the Killing Fields’: Dire underdevelopment and the Filipino national idea
August 9, 2022It explores another primary focus of San Juan’s work: the literary struggle to develop a national popular Filipino consciousness under the duress of U.S. neocolonialism.
Read moreMasters, Mates, & Pilots union studies work of civil rights leader Hugh Mulzac
August 8, 2022Tony Pecinovsky, vice president of International Publishers, was invited to give a talk on the new edition of Capt. Hugh Mulzac’s book, ‘A Star to Steer By.’
Read moreBarbara Kingsolver’s ‘Another America’: Poems in an updated bilingual edition
August 4, 2022“I came to the Southwest expecting cactus, wide open spaces, and adventure. I found, instead, another whole America."
Read morePortrait of ‘Fighter’ Emmy Lou Packard at Richmond Art Center
August 3, 2022Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience is a stunning if overdue, retrospective exhibition of an artist largely ignored in her lifetime by critics.
Read more‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 2, 2022Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
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